Yahoo has applied for a patent on a new mass-surveillance advertising method that would embed sensors and monitors into billboards, signs, and other advertisements. If you can see an ad, it can see you — at least, in Yahoo’s brave new world.

A new report claims that Yahoo didn’t just cooperate with the NSA — it built an unprecedented database to scan incoming email for keywords in real time and turns this information over to federal agencies automatically.

New data from DEFCON suggests that monitors are potential targets in malware attacks — and while they won’t interest commercial botnets, the potential applications for government actors or infrastructure targets are significant.

In a panel at SXSW Interactive last week, Congressman Michael McCaul, Admiral Bobby Inman, and security industry experts Joe Ross and Dena Graziano discussed a broad range of cyber threats – to the military, U.S. businesses, and the public.

The battle between the FBI and Apple has thus far been portrayed as corporation vs. government. Corporations are made up of people, however, and at least some Apple engineers have stated they’d sooner quit the company than unlock iOS in the manner the government is demanding.

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